FDA proposes indoor tanning ban on minors to fight skin cancer
Washington
THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday proposed barring everyone under 18 from using tanning beds, a sweeping move that medical experts say is a major step towards reducing the risk of skin cancer in the United States.
For decades, medical researchers saw indoor tanning as little more than a curiosity. But evidence has been gathering that tanning beds may play more of a role in the nation's cancer numbers than originally thought.
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